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.TH CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT 3 "17 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
.SH NAME
CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT \- set low speed limit in bytes per second
.SH SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT, long speedlimit);
.SH DESCRIPTION
Pass a long as parameter. It contains the average transfer speed in bytes per
second that the transfer should be below during
\fICURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME(3)\fP seconds for libcurl to consider it to be too
slow and abort.
.SH DEFAULT
0, disabled
.SH PROTOCOLS
All
.SH EXAMPLE
.nf
curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
  /* abort if slower than 30 bytes/sec during 60 seconds */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME, 60L);
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT, 30L);
  res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
  if(CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEDOUT == res) {
    printf("Timeout!\\n");
  }
  /* always cleanup */
  curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
.fi
.SH AVAILABILITY
Always
.SH RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME "(3), " CURLOPT_TIMEOUT "(3), "
